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				<div class="sectiontitle">Earthquake Retrofit Designs</div>

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					For more information on retrofitting, see the Earthquake Retrofits <a href="http://www.shearwalls.com/services/topics/retrofitting.php">page</a>.<br />
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					<span class="sectionsubheading">Single-family homes:</span><br />
					Any of the following services, as desired by Client to give a range of retrofit options
					from streamlined approach intended to prevent major damage to extensive designs intended
					to protect finishes from cosmetic damage.<br />
					
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						<li>Site evaluations for new retrofits</li>
						<li>Previous retrofit evaluations</li>
						<li>Review of original construction drawings to identify potential concerns</li>
						<li>Retrofit designs</li>
						<li>Construction observation</li>
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					<span class="sectionsubheading">Condominiums and Townhouses:</span><br />
					Note: For more information on the retrofit design sequence for condominiums, see Seismic
					Retrofit Engineering Sequence <a href="http://www.shearwalls.com/resources/engineering-sequence.pdf">(PDF)</a>.<br />
					
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						<li>All services listed above for single-family homes, and:</li>
						<li>Site evaluations for weak-story/soft-story conditons</li>
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							Creative solutions to reduce overall retrofit costs by minimizing structural
							elements used in repetetive floor plans (see Earthquake Retrofits: Solutions for
							Low-Rise, Wood-Framed Condominiums <a href=http://www.shearwalls.com/resources/retrofits.pdf">(PDF)</a>)
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					For association-owned buildings, engineering services will include site investigation,
					outside professional peer-review and constructablity review of design, and construction
					observation in addition to design work.
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							Screening of apartment buildings to meet local requirements for earthquake hazard
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							Apartment buildings with "tuck-under" parking performed very poorly in the 1994
							Northridge earthquake. Several Bay Area cities have recently enacted, or are considering
							enacting, ordinances that require multi-story apartment buildings to be reviewed for
							earthquake safety. Typically buildings that are single story or have a small number of
							units do NOT need to be reviewed at this time. (The number of units depends on the
							individual city.)
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							For more information on "soft-story" buildings, the hazards they pose, and guidelines on
							their evaluation, see "Soft-Story Residential Building in Earthquakes" at the Association
							of Bay Area Governments' <a href="http://quake.abag.ca.gov/housing/PR-Soft-Story-Oakland-Final.pdf">
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						<li>Real estate transfers</li>
						<li>Fire, wind, earthquake or other disaster damage</li>
						<li>Foundation settlement</li>
						<li>Termite or dry-rot damage (with respect to structural condition only)</li>
						<li>Determine causes of mysterious structural issues due to snow and ice action, settlement, wood shrinkage,
						<li>hidden failures of structural elements, etc.</li>
						<li>Property insurance claims</li>
						<li>Engineering reports for above as needed</li>
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					Failure analysis of structures for insurance and other claims, specializing in wood-framed construction.<br />
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						<li>Investigate existing conditions</li>
						<li>Review existing construction documents</li>
						<li>Prepare engineering reports</li>
						<li>Expert testimony</li>
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